Serious/ EFG London Jazz Festival is announcing today the first wave of artists for its 30th festival. These include: Abdullah Ibrahim at the Barbican Melody Gardot and Jan Garbarek Group – both […]
Mingus – The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s(Resonance. 3-LP or 3-CD set (*). Review by Dan Bergsagel) In August 1972, the Charles Mingus Sextet had a two-week residency at Ronnie Scott’s. Now, […]
Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Friends – In Concert(The Last Music Company, BCLB 002. Review by Leonard Weinreich)Jazz, as we know it, first surfaced in New Orleans, a city unique in its country. […]
The W is Bruno Heinen’s group with Heidi Vogel(*), Gene Calderazzo and Andrea Di Biase. “We play all original music by Bruno but with total freedom of our own individual styles,” says […]
“Our peaceful, Grade I registered garden is unlike any other with its romantic design and architecture,” say the owners of Iford Manor, situated near Bradford-on-Avon, within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, […]
(XJAZZ! Berlin. 4-8 May 2022. Preview by Izzy Blankfield) Berlin is a city constantly in flux, and its jazz scene is no different. This year’s XJAZZ! Festival – taking place from 4 […]
Malcolm Earle Smith – Vocal Intent(Self-released via Bandcamp. Album review by Leonard Weinreich) Few jazz instrumentalists were consummate jazz vocalists, most notably Louis Armstrong (who invented the art), Fats Waller, Nat Cole […]
OK:KO – Liesu (WeJazz Records. Album Review by Peter Slavid The jazz scene in Finland is a particularly interesting one at the moment. It has links to the local folk music, and […]
Dave Douglas: Secular Psalms (Greenleaf CD Gre-CD-1090. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This album consists of a suite to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the beginnings of the work on the Ghent […]
Didi Kern/Rudi Fischerlehner, Strenge Kammer stage Sheila Jordan & Cameron Brown (main stage) Didi Kern/Rudi Fischerlehner, Strenge Kammer stage (Porgy & Bess, Vienna. 6 April 2022. Double Review and phone snaps by […]
The band co-led by guitarist Pete Oxley from the UK and Nicolas Meier, originally from Switzerland, is on a tour of France and the UK; their London date is at the 606 […]
BBC Radio 3 has kindly sent out a press release amalgamating the station’s three programmes to mark the Mingus centenary over the Easter weekend, a few days ahead of the day itself, […]
Rewire Festival (Amare, The Hague, Netherlands, 7-10 April 2022. Festival Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Rewire is an intersection of the determinedly intellectual and the robustly physical that rewards ambition. In its 11th […]
In LJN’s ‘Ten Tracks I Can’t Do Without’ series, where jazz musicians write about their inspirations, Liam Noble writes about Sonny Rollins: Liam Noble writes: You can’t chose your family, nor the […]
Riga Jazz Stage 2022 (Splendid Palace, Riga, Latvia. 7-9 April 2022. Festival/ Competition Report by Martin Longley) Riga Jazz Stage is usually an annual event, but this edition marked its reappearance following […]
